Dear colleagues Appreciation for community access to SARS CoV2 vaccines We would like to thank you and your staff for making SARS CoV2 vaccines available to the community, especially as the GSH / UCT Community of Hope vaccine centre options were no longer open. It was great to have appointment times, as well as an…
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Obs Can Feed You report
OCFY is still active with our usual Saturday and Sunday breakfast. We thought the recent eviction notice might change out numbers but hasn’t seemed to. We still serve between 50-80 persons per session. Many members of the green have joined the occupation of riverside lodge We still have a shortage of bread as we only…
Corruption and urban development webinar
Hi all I am on a webinar on corruption and state capture, and a speaker from the African Centre for Cities, shared some video clips about their work on highlighting risks of corruption in urban development decisions See the Cities of Integrity playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PL6YKlvsHY3r44POEB457uMbf0o768ZOBH Thanks Leslie
Water
Did you know South Africa produces more than five billion litres of sewage every single day? 10% is ‘treated’ for direct human contact. And where does the rest end up? It’s dumped into rivers, oceans and dams. Disgusting right? The toxic water crisis in South Africa is out of control, we need urgent action to…
Update from the Western Cape Food Forum
As we head into the last quarter of 2023, there is hope on the horizon. As food consumers, we hope to see some relief in food prices along with a drop in inflation and producers’ costs. As producers, our dams are full with the September rains and ready for a productive dry season. Despite this,…
Opinion: Seaweed is nutritious, not slimy. Eating it could save the world.
Vincent Doumeizel – 27 September 2023 Seaweed might be the greatest untapped resource we have on this planet. It can be a nutritious food, an alternative to plastic, restore our oceans and could even help tackle climate change. But while there are 12,000 different types of seaweed, we know how to cultivate fewer than 30….
In Defence of our Constitutional Democracyts
Many of you requested recordings of the Institute for African Alternatives’ (IFAA’s) workshop on Ethics, Parliament and the Elected Representative, held on 24 August. Please visit IFAA’s YouTube page on https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ifaa+forum Or access recordings of the individual presentations, see below: RICHARD CALLAND, Associate Professor, Public Law, Cape Town University at https://youtu.be/MRQC7GR7DGk ANTHONY SMITH, Chief Executive,…
Invitation to a Special General Meeting on the 3rd October at 6pm
The OCA will be holding a SGM on Tuesday the 3rd October in order to: 1) Give feedback to members on the decision by the OCA Management Committee to reach a settlement and withdraw from litigation on the River Club development. The Man Comm will explain why we had to follow this route and what…
Women Talk at Midnight
Hello everyone, As I’m sure you’ve all observed, our vibrant community of participants in our (almost) midnight walks is expanding with each passing walk. Some of you may already be aware that this initiative shares a sister movement in India, led by Mallika Taneja, women in New Delhi have been organizing and partaking in midnight…
Young skateboarder Robert Glover creating awareness on inclusive skateboarding
Cape Town – A young skateboarding and sailing enthusiast hopes to create greater awareness of and introduce more people to Adaptive Skateboarding. Robert Glover, 24, originally from Namibia, who now lives in Observatory, has been sailing since the age of 11, and started skateboarding in 2018… READ MORE HERE